About me

I grew up in Visakhapatnam (Vizag), a coastal city where the Bay of Bengal meets green hills, with my mother, a zoology professor, and my father, a geophysicist. They taught me that curiosity is a way of life. I’ve always had one foot in technology and the other in storytelling, taking things apart to see how they work and then trying to explain them in plain language.

Today I am a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft, working on Azure’s confidential computing and security offerings. My focus is on helping customers safely bring their most sensitive workloads to the cloud. My path here wound through seven years at a bank, first leading mobile payments (Apple Pay, Android Pay, tokenization), then moving into security architecture on innovation teams. After that came time at confidential computing startups and a few patents along the way. Moving to Canada at 21 was my real awakening. Those formative years taught me that the most interesting questions rarely have easy answers.

Titles aside, my job is simple: ship things people trust. I care about security and privacy by design, and I am deeply interested in Responsible AI, particularly how we build systems that are useful, fair, and resilient in the real world. I do not worship complexity, I try to remove it. When something is hard to explain, I take that as a bug, not a feature.

This blog is where I connect the dots between technology and security (containers, confidential computing, practical cloud ops), responsible AI (governance, safety, societal impact), and life, philosophy, and literature (how old ideas help with new problems). How do we make security usable instead of annoying? What are the hidden ways our privacy gets compromised, from data brokers to tracking we do not even notice? These are the questions that actually keep me up at night.

These days, I live in Garner, North Carolina with my wife and two kids, including a newborn who keeps us wonderfully busy. When I am not thinking about product strategy, you will find me exploring meditation practices, diving into history, or in the kitchen. Cooking is my love language, whether I am perfecting an Andhra mess-style meal or revisiting my late mother’s recipes when I need comfort.

If you are building something in secure cloud, AI, or payments, or you just want to trade notes on food, philosophy, and books, say hello.